Elemental Burst Nerfed, Now How About a Buff?

No doubt everyone is already aware of the nerf to Elemental's ability to burst in PvP due to the 10 second cooldown on EM + NS, as well as the nerf to pushback resistance, which hinders our ability to get spells off in the first place. My biggest concern at this point is that Elemental's performance and representation in 5v5 (the Arena blizzard USUALLY balances around) will steadily decline once 2.4 hits, IF it remains in its current state, which is no buffs to Elemental.

Shaman, especially elemental Shaman, have few survival tools at their disposal outside of Mail + Shield, Grounding Totem, and Tremor Totem. I am almost certain, that this is because of our ability to burst opponents so well. That was the balancing factor: We're pretty much a "glass cannon" right out of the box. However, our burst has been nerfed in a sense. We can't fire off an EM + CL then hit NS + LB to deal upwards 3k non-crit damage to an opponent in patch 2.4.

At this stage in the PTR, Elemental has received no buffs to compensate for the change in PvP play. Our survivability, as well as our "sustained" damage capabilities are the same (although some could argue the latter is nerfed due to the 4-piece set bonus change), and I'm of the belief that either some form of DPS increase (unlikely) OR survivability increase (more likely) will need to be added to Elemental to allow it to retain a healthy representation in Arenas. All we had was our burst, Bloodlust, and totems. You take our burst away, and we're "glass cannons" with spongey "Nerf (tm)" ammo. (Yes, I know its an exaggeration, but bear with me please)

Some form of reactive buff (that occurs when we're crit), a change to the Earth's Grasp talent to provide a chance to root a target when Earthbind Pulses, making instant ghost wolf baseline, or any number of other ideas will come to mind for most players. I don't doubt that by the end of the 2.4 testing phase there will be SOMETHING, but I just figured I'd put in my 2 copper on the issue.